As if a 500 pound rat monster in an apron and a rubber ducky hat wasn’t enough, we’ve got tons of new stuff for you in this update!

First off, we’ve updated our commenting system so you can easily use custom avatars! (Until now, it was hooked through the Gravitar system.) You’ll want to register for our system and log in. And then push some buttons. You can use whatever you like for your avatar, obviously but if you want something Shounen Fighty, we’ve captured a whole bunch of icons for you to use!

We’ve been excited to announce our new tumblr project, Ask Mahou Shounen! Drop by to ask questions of the cast and one of us will do a sketch or a doodle to respond. Help us figure out things about our characters we never knew! And maybe get some fan service, who knows. ;D

In case it wasn’t obvious, at this point we’ve let go of our update schedule and are posting whenever we’re able to get a page done. JD’s enduring a hellishly grueling semester of school and we’re gearing up for conventions again, so we’re stretched pretty thin. We’ll probably be able to produce a page every couple of weeks, but! In the meantime, we’ll be regularly doing sketches for the Ask Mahou Shounen tumblr so you can still get your magical boy fix until we can update more often!

This weekend kicks off the start of the convention season! This weekend we’ll be hitting Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle and Sac Con in Sacramento. Come see us!

Hey Scuttlebutters! Things are heating up on the verge of summer and the verge of the con season! We’ve got a lot going on this year to say the least.

After nearly ten years of selling our fan badges, we’ve accumulated nearly 200 badge designs! Unfortunately that means our artiste alley booth has become pretty crowded and its becoming hard to find space for new designs. So that means for the first time, we are doing a big retirement of about 30 badges. What does that mean? Well, a couple of things. It means you will no longer be able to get these badges at conventions anymore. But what it also means is we’re clearing these guys out for cheap so it’s a great time to add them to your collection before they’re gone! All of these designs are available for $3 each through our online store ONLY.

Meanwhile, if you’re a collector of our badges, we’ve got something special for you. We have a lot of folks stop by the table who have so many badges that they can’t remember what they do and don’t have! So we’ve put together a check list to help you keep track of your collection! Now it’s a challenge of who will fill up their sheets first!

Why are we retiring so many badges? Because we have a TON of new stuff coming that we have to make room for! In the next few months you can expect a bunch of new designs, including more Supernatural, Sherlock, My Little Pony, Bioshock, Avatar and more. Something we’ve wanted to add to our line up is more Pokemon. But with so many options, we need your help to decide what to make! We want to start off by making some badges to honor some other badges — gym badges, that is! Swing over to our DeviantArt and put your 2 cents in on our poll about your favorite gym leader.

It’s another busy year on the road for us, so keep an eye out from coast to coast for our booth. There’s several cons this year that we weren’t able to make it into and folks have been asking — this year we didn’t make it into Acen, Anime Boston or San Japan. As for Fanime, we are on the waiting list. Keep an eye on our Twitter up until the con (and AT
the con) to see if we make it in and where to find us.

If you’re a fan of our comic, Mahou Shounen Fight, you know we haven’t been able to update for a while. We can’t apologize enough for that and we are just DYING to get back to work. This semester JD’s school has been a nightmare, requiring 2 all nighters a week. Needless to say, it’s pretty hard to get out comic pages when you’re working 50 hours a week. But the semester ends in just a few weeks so don’t give up on us yet!

While we’re away from the comic, we’re offering some other MSF-related goodness! First off, we’ve made Yuki and Alex’s backstory available on our website as an illustrated story! We’ve also opened a brand new Tumblr to share little nuggets of sparkly magic — Ask Mahou Shounen! Drop by and ask questions of us or the cast of MSF and we’ll respond with a comic or a doodle.

Thank you all for your support and your kind words about Shounen Fight, even when we have to be on break! For now, keep up to date with us via our Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or DeviantArt. We’ll keep you up to date on our latest developments and designs. See you at the cons!

Guys, I feel like you’re trying to do too much in one update lately- the story is feeling rushed when read in one sitting, especially this chapter. There have been walls of texts and info dumping, and the abruptness isn’t something that was present earlier one. I can’t help thinking this is because of the sporadic scheduling, but I don’t think the pacing should have to suffer- Just take your time!

I’ll admit, this is definitely a problem we’ve been having with this chapter. We’ve got a lot to fit into this one, especially that exposition info dumping stuff. And yeah, there’s a lot of pressure to make every page count and get you guys new information with each page, especially when we’re only able to get 2 pages done a month. 🙁 But yeah, definitely after looking at it as a whole, it is more rushed than our other chapters. Once we finish it up and it’s getting ready to print, we may end up tweaking things a little to slow down the pacing and avoid that whole wall-of-text situation.

Thank you so much for your feedback! Insightful stuff like this from our readers is really important for us to improve as comic artists and to make the story better as we go along. <3

Does someone know something about Bob (Shobana) author of the webcomic Demon of the Underground which should have updated one week or two months ago either you consider the announced end of hiatus to be read feb 4th or the 2d of april… Being without news since the end of January we, readers, are quite worried. HEEEEEELP‼

Oh god. -eyetwitch- I … I love rats, I do, they’re adorable, but the pastry cook in me was screaming at the LAST page when I saw her wearing her hair down. This one …. -shudder- NO RATS IN THE KITCHEN! ITS NOT SANITARY! And I will smack a bitch if her nails (claws?) are painted.